SHORT INFO
Based on simple materials, which are also used in building construction and civil engineering, Dupaquier's
Dupaquier's works are created through repetitive gestures and in layers. The possibilities of the material are
material, be it through bending, folding, filling or grinding. Her physically demanding
physically demanding way of working incorporates the "chance in the material" and is always based on a
from a minimalist understanding of form.
Cécile Dupaquier (*1970) also develops site-specific installations in dialog with the architecture of the respective exhibition space.
and realizes large-scale projects and public artworks in France, Germany and Switzerland.
France, Germany and Switzerland. Most recently, Dupaquier won 1st prize in 2021 for an art in architecture
project for the BKA, Berlin.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | dark shining bright, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg (D) |
| 2017 | Wall Works, Gallery Daniel Marzona, Berlin (D) |
| 2016 | private viewing, Fürbringerstraße 20, Berlin (D) |
| 2015 | depot interim, Atelier Wilhelmstraße 16 e.V., Stuttgart (D) |
| 2015 | multi pli, gallery weisser elefant, Berlin (D) |
| 2013 | The Hiding Place, Ocean, Berlin (D) |
| 2012 | Epaves, Musée Georges Garret, Vesoul (F) |
| 2008 | Par déduction, Galerie de l'école Supérieure d'Arts de Brest (F) |
| 2006 | Extension! Réduction!, Espace Arts plastiques, Vénissieux (F) |
| 2005 | Accumulation! Extension!, Gallery Piano Nobile, Geneva (CH) |
| 2003 | 1m/seconde, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany (F) |
| 2001 | ArtLiaisonBonnLyon, Kunstmuseum Bonn (D) |
| 2000 | Il arrive que rien n'arrive, Galerie Piano Nobile, Geneva (CH) |
| 1999 | Tentative de rapprochement, L'Arteppes, Annecy (F) |
| 1998 | Vidéogramme 4 (videochronics), Galerie Interface MMM, Marseille (F) |
| 1998 | j.e.v.o.u.l.a.i.s.v.o.u.s.d.i.r.e., Galerie le Faubourg, Strasbourg (F) |
| 1998 | 528 heures, 400 sacs d'eau, 1 goutte à goutte et buée, Institut français, Stuttgart (D) |
| 1997 | Passe-moi le sel, Galerie la BF15, Lyon (F) |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | Bildet Banden, SETAREH, Berlin Minimal", Larc, Grasse Joue-la encore, Sam (municipal collection of Vénissieux), Center d'art Madeleine Lambert, Venissieux The Joy of Gestures, Palais Eger, Berlin Relief, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin Sliced Bread, Zwinger Gallery, Berlin here and now, Basement, Berlin |
| 2022 | blind vision, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin Et même la matière parle, Siège de l'Ordre des experts-comptables, Paris random repeat refine, Kunstverein Ingolstadt The Obiger Galaxy, Axel Obiger, Berlin Metalinien, curated by Rüdiger Lange, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin random repeat refine, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin |
| 2021 | очумелая выставка, Museum Ploshad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Novosibirsk for the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale 2021 (RU) Le soleil se lève aussi, un-spaced Gallery at Manifesta, Lyon Prismatiques, stratégie des petites faces, Le 19 - CRAC, Montbéliard |
| 2020 | ArtVerona yellow", un-spaced Gallery at online exhibition Art Verona all over, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Accumulation (suite 2020), performance at the opening of "Avant demain" curated by Karine Tissot (from the collection FCAC Geneva), on a proposal by Marie-Ève Knoerle, Château de Penthes, Pregny (CH) Home Sweet Home - Art in House Arrest, online group exhibition, Gallery Jordan/Seydoux - Drawings & Prints, Berlin Infinité ∞² - for Éliane Radigue, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin |
| 2019 | L'artiste et les commissaires, curated by Pierre Granoux, LAGE EGAL, Berlin Alles auf einmal....und der mond, curated by Annette Ruenzler, Adamski Gallery, Berlin Faktor 92, Maren & Matthias Wagener's collection, Künstlerhaus Faktor, Hamburg alternative >f>acts, curated by DAG (GLUE), Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin Perron Art Prize, Kunsthaus Frankenthal 26x Bauhaus, curated by Marjolaine Lévy & Thibaut de Ruyter and , Institut Français Berlin, Bremen & Munich INTOTO #7, curated by Thomas Fougeirol, Julien Carreyn and Renaud Regnery, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin |
| 2018 | transition, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite 3,curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne fug(u)e, with Clara Broermann, Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V. guest at Kommunale Galerie Berlin BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite 2, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin FIGURE [OUT], curated by Pascal Brateau, idiotopie, Nancy |
| 2017 | Espace libre, Galerie weisser Elefant, Berlin BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite - the rear side, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp &, curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (P) Reduction as condensation, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Unfinished sympathy, curated by Nadia Lichtig, Salon du Salon #13, Marseille some thing", curated by Albert Weis, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin Comme les chutes d'eau déjà tremblent dedans la source", Espace Arts Plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux |
| 2016 | pilote : pilote", curated by Monique Wysterski, SEZ, Berlin True Mirror", Espace Commines, Paris |
| 2015 | Tu alles weg, 100 Years of the Black Square, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin Sans titres ( ) #2, gallery un-spaced, Paris |
| 2014 | Room inventory survey, curated by Conny Becker, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Humboldt University Berlin Kentucky Karaoke, DMNDKT, Berlin SSIIEE four, SSIIEE, independent exhibition project, Berlin |
| 2013 | Variable Surplus(with Markus Zimmermann), NuN, Berlin Raum, curated by Conny Becker and Marte Kiessling, Tête, Berlin |
| 2012 | Measuring space, Pforzheim Gallery Des accords parfaits, Espace Arts plastiques Vénissieux and CAP Saint-Fons Replay, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany |
| 2011 | Construction Deconstruction, Project Space Alte Feuerwache, Berlin Urzula, German video works, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences |
| 2010 | Folly. Places to linger, Seeschlößchen Wustrau, Brandenburg Quatrain, Dada Post, Berlin Void, Friedman Gallery Project, Berlin |
| 2009 | And... And! (with Gab Heller), Spor klübü, Berlin Stadt Haus Raum (with Ines Doleschal), Städtische Galerie Ostfildern |
| 2008 | Brest (with Antonio Panetta), Showroom, Berlin Biotop, tmp.deluxe, temporary space for art&media, Berlin |
| 2007 | Steady state, vaulted cellar in the old royal city of Berlin |
| 2006 | Videofoyer (with Peter Frey), Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken |
| 2005 | Passion beyond reason, curated by G.Rockenschaub & G.Miller, Wallstreet one gallery, Berlin Young Academy", Galerie Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin |
| 2004 | Departure/arrival, Junge Akademie in the Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken Werkstatt Junge Akademie", Academy of Arts, Berlin Urzula, contemporary video art, curated by Gab. Heller, Gallery Pankow, Berlin |
| 2001 | L'intimité (à vendre), Institut français, Stuttgart Tentative d'intégration" (with selected works from FRAC Rhône-Alpes), Galerie Angle, St Paul-Trois-Châteaux |
| 2000 | Entre voisins, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot and La BF15, Lyon |
| 1999 | Face à face, (with Dominique Blaise), Galerie Piano Nobile, Geneva |
| 1998 | 25th art fair of young artists, Gallery Karas Zagreb Art fair Guadalajara", Gallery la BF15 (MEX) |
| 1997 | Des femmes et de la propriété, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany Quand les machines rient, Center d'Art et de Plaisanterie, Montbéliard |
| 1996 | Les enfants des Lumière, Espace Arts Plastiques, Villefranche Portes ouvertes, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon Dusolal Macanru Ponkibruhu!, Center d'Art Plastique, St-Fons |
| 1995 | Critique-critique, Cité de l'Image, Lyon Critique-critique, Gallery Nuova Icona, Venice |
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES (SELECTION)
| 2022 | Artist Scholarship "Neustart Kultur", Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D) |
| 2021 | first prize (project "Zick-Zack"), public art competition, BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) Berlin (D) |
| 2021 | second prize (project "Recherche"), public art competition, BKA Berlin (D) |
| 2021 | Artist Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D) |
| 2020 | Artist Scholarship "Sonderstipendium", Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin (D) |
| 2018 | Nominated for the art award of Haus am Kleistpark Berlin (D) |
| 2011-12 | Artist in residence, at Collège Gérôme, Vesoul, DRAC Franche-Comté (F) |
| 2004 | Artist in residence International Summer Academy, at Museumspark Rüdersdorf, Akademie der Künste Berlin (D) |
| 2003 | Artist in residence "Die junge Akademie", Akademie der Künste, Berlin (D) |
| 2001 | Artist in residence, St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Galerie Angle and DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F) |
| 1997/98 | Artist in residence "Art 3", at Institut français Stuttgart, Region Rhône-Alpes & Baden-Württemberg (D) |
| 1996 | Artist grant "Aide individuelle à la création", DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F) |
| 1994-95 | Post-graduate grant at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Lyon (F) |
COLLECTIONS
Espace Arts Plastiques Vénissieux, France
Private collections in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Saarland, Milan (I), Lyon (F), Los Angeles (USA), Brussels (B)